' . " ' . T '. T" SIK355EE?5 ..' C0 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA', FRIDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1918 5 ;: I m K kh- r ".- THE EVENINGnTELEGnAPK -1 j PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY '' J CTTIU3 II. K. CURTI3, PaiilBlNT Ctiarlsa 1C. Ludlngton. Vice Frnldrnt; John C. artln. Strret&rr and TrHliimi PhlllnM. r'nlllna 1 - yVMnjSMTeUry and Treaiurerj Philips, Collins, John. S. Wltllamt. John J. Spurgeon. DlrectTbra. editorial boards Ciiui H. K. CciTis, Chairman DAVID E. SMIIKT Editor JOHN C. MARTIN.... Qcntrtl Business Manager Published dally at TnLio Lroota Building, Independence Square, Philadelphia. Utsora Cinthlj.... Broad and Cheitnut Street ATLaNTIo Cm Prt$t-Vnion Building Naw Toik j 200 Metropolitan Tower DrraolT , 40.1 Ford Building Br. Lonil , 1008 Kullerton llullillne Cnituoo 1202 Trilvnt llullillne NEWS BUREAUS! WnnmoToM Bcauu. N. E. Cor. 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All rights of republication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. rklUdtlpbla. nidir. Drctmbrr 6. 1518 THE RIGHT MAN IT WOULD have been dllllcult for tho President to have found tn his party a successor to Secretary McAdoo In tho Treasury Department who would have been more satisfactory to tho country than Carter Glass. Ho was chairman of the House Commit tee on Banking mid Currency under whoso direction the Federal Reserve act was passed. He mado a careful study of hank ing legislation In this country nnd abroad In preparation for leading the tight in the House for tho passage of tho bill, and he was wise enough to take tho Aldrlch plan, the result of the work of a commission of experts, as the basis for the bill which his committee reported. As a result we have a Federal Reserve Bank law which la tho product of tho thinking of Republicans and' Democrats and Is neither a Democratic nor a Republican statute, but an American law. The new Secretary of the Treasury is expected to be as broad-minded In his ad ministration of tho affairs of his depart ment and to deal on their merits -vlth tho questions which como before him. His promotion Is In accordance with the best principles of government, which require that as ;nen qualify themselves for servlco they shall bo utilized where they can apply their knowledge and experience to the best advantage. Somebody ought to Btage a peace confer ence tn the Senate. MR. TAFT AND MR. WILSON ON EVERY occasion when It begins to appear that a rabid partisanship may bund us to tho overwhelming Importance of the questions with which wo must deal 'X-vn Europe something happens to prove that w?e are neve.- without the resources neces sary to mental poiso In a crl-ls. Such was the lengthy editorial written by Mr. Taft in yesterday's Public Ledger upon the topic of the President's European trip. Here was a wise, passionless and In finitely fair analysis prepared to support Mr. Wilson and to strengthen his hands. Thus, after all the partisan clamor of dis approval that filled the air, it remained for the one man who had the best reasons for feeling badly used to be most Just and most friendly In his estimate of the Presi dent's motives. Unquestionably Mr. Taft should have gone abroad with tho peace commission. Ho gave the first prestige to the plan for a leaguo of r.atlons. He is thoroughly In- formed In relation to every issue involved in tho European tangle at this moment. Xet, left behind and denied the opportunity to serve the country as he might have served it, he is not to bo swayed from the service of truth. : It is no wonder that Mr. Taft Is liked and admired. Ho Is one of tho few men In ' either party whoso prestige Is suro to In crease steadily In the stormy times Imme diately ahead. The sugar bowl is back on the restaurant table and this, to most people, is a surer sign of peace than the surrender of the German fleet. TRUTH FOR THE P. R. T. TTTHERE Is the gifted and courageous man who will volunteer to do for the p. It. T. the service which that astute corporation yearns so earnestly to perform for the public and enable It to "know the truth"? Tho necessary talent does not seem to be available on Mr. Mitten's expensive "publicity" staff. There Is something strange In the situation of tho P. R. T. Even In Its hours of bitterness and pain tt Is an Inspiration to flippancy. Few people ever try to be fair with the trolley company. It has mado cynics of us. Men tion It and people laugh or swear. They have wearied of being serious. They found It got them nowhere. Who will be the first to break the awful news to tho P. R. T. and tell It that this is its own fault? Tho "Transit Company Is In a position with relation to the public at largo which gives it enormous advantages for self advertising. It touches Intimately tho lives ot hundreds of thousands every day. It can please or embitter them and range .ill nnlnlnn nn tfa cM nf nrciln.it ft jumuw ,...... .. -.. . -.- w -. - .-. ... v And. brilliantly, unfailingly. It alwavs , , w . -v.. -- -- w ' , seems to make the worst of Its oppor tunities. Did Mr. Mitten over ride on one of his Walnut street trolleys in the rush hours? We may presume that he did not or he would never have tried to luro the good will of the city with pretty words. It is not (oo much to say that tho conditions sin thn Walnut street cars about C o'clock ' in the evening these days are indecent. .. i Everybody has to wait in tho cold. In the $ tt h eed everybody is Jammed and crowded, ..wearied and humiliated, pawed and tram- t.jstid, The cars creep or stop altogether. $1 might be assumed that the P. R. T. ,'t swp the situation if cross-town llnes were not nicely adjusted to connect with the West Philadelphia routes from tho center of tho city; If, while Walnut Btrcet Is a seething mass of angry peoplo packed In trolleys, Spruco and Pino and Sansom and Filbert nnd Arch streets, al most deserted, did not seem to offer clear, quick, comfortablo avenues to homo nnd dinner. Why tho P. R. T. docs not uso these streets and the connecting lines In tho rush hour no one knows. Presumably tho Department of City Trnnslt doesn't know. Somo ono ought to stir up tho De partment of City Transit, slnco Christmas Is coming and tho situation Is getting worso. If tho Department of City Transit hasn't the authority to reroute the trolleys, It might apply to tho next rcglslaturo for that authority. Mcanwhllo, before Mr. Mitten spends much moro money to have us "Know tho Truth" It n.'ght be advls.iblo for him to spend a nickel In tho rush hours and learn a llttlo of It for himself. OUR VITAL SHARE IN THE TRIUMPH OF FREEDOM Superb and Decisive Accomplishment of the American Army Revealed in Gen. Pcreliing's Soldierly Report "We had cut the enemy's main lino of communications and nothing but sur render or an armistice could save it's army from complete disaster." "CWER since Sedan was reached many Americans have entertained tho im pression that tho drive beyond tho Argonne warranted such an nppraise ment. General Pershinf? now stamps it with unchallengeable authenticity, for his comprehensive report on our operations in France is scupulously sparing of lhctoric. It is not magnitude of language but of facts which gives this document its distinction in military history. Grant nnd Caesar were terse in victory, but each had undergone chastening expe riences, the American commander at Cold Harbor, tho Roman at the hands of Vercingetorix. General Pershing's chronicle is one of uninterrupted tri umph. With unprecedented incentives to exult in a record of glory, he waives emotional outbursts in favor of the readers of his wondrous tale. His categorical verdict on the major American offensive becomes, therefore, packed with meaning even for those of his compatriots to whom boasting is re pugnant. It is the simple truth that the irresistible movement of our army north of Verdun was one of tho prime factors In ending the war. For tho forty-three days of terrific fighting in this offensive tho colossal military and industrial energies organ ized by the United States nt home nnd abroad through eighteen months served a3 preparation. Oddly enough, speed was gained through adversity as well as "through the efficient execution of long premeditated plans. When Ludendorff struck on the Somme on March 21, 1918, the American troops in France, which General Pershing placed at Marshal Foch's disposal, num bered only 313,000. Tho crisis necessi tated the unparalleled dispatch of vast hosts of fighting men overseas with the greatest possible celerity. Britain reor ganized her shipping facilities to such an extent that fully one-half of our troops have crossed the Atlantic under the Union Jack. The French Government made up the deficiencies in our ordnance. General Pershing states this fact in gratitude, but without invidious reflec tions on our home production. "All credit," he declares, "is due to our own manufacturers for tho efforts to meet our requirements, as at the time the armistice was signed we were able to look forward to a supply of virtually all our necessities from our own factories." Acceptance of the French offer unques tionably released much valuable cargo space in a grueling emergency nnd per mitted the employment of equipped American troops to help stay the ad vance on Paris. At this crisis plans for the movement of our army as a unit were temporarily set aside. Preliminary to all else was tho destruction of tho Hun driving power. The local action at Cantigny proved a superb index of American dash and on a greater scale it was again heroically exemplified at Chateau Thierry and in tho elimination of the Marne pocket. By the end of August the whole aspect of tho war had gloriously changed and it was possible for the American army as an entity to take up a campaign of prime importance in the execution of the grand strategic offensive. This was the drive to the German lines of communica tion along the Meuse, An essential prefatory move was the wiping out of the St. Mihiel salient. This was briskly accomplished on September 12 and 13 in one of the most elaborately prepared and incisively clean cut actions of the war. The American First Army, under Pershing's personal command, hero appeared for the first time as an active combatant unit. About 600,000 troops were engaged, and so rapidly had the American troops in creased in numbers that the supreme test was at hand. On September 26 virtually nil the trained American forces in France, save those engaged in brilliantly aiding the advance in Flanders and the Artois, be gan the stupendous battle comparable in difficulty with the Franco-British attack on the Hindenburg line. Many of the troops engaged hnd not completed the originally specified period of training in quiet sectors, but General Pershing points to no inferiority of their efficiency or valor. The whole army faced a problem whoso solution, according to strategists, tri umphantly proved right, would deci sively crush tho Gorman power. Somo of its valuo was, of course, dependent on tho success then obviously assured of tho heroic French nnd British ef forts to tho north. But nt nny time the destruction of tho Kricmhild lino, tho passngo through the difficult Argonno nnd tho possession of tho railway along the Meuso would have been an nppnlling blow to Germany. With Marshal Foch's victories magnifi cently co-ordinated, the stroke was con clusive. When the armistice was signed tho two grent armies under Bullnrd and Liggett, respectively, had in consider ably less than two months swept for ward against tho flower of tho German army and against its most powerful artillery n distance of twenty-five miles through natural positions of great strength and often amid weather wholly unfavorable to the conduct of nn advance. When operations censed a third Ameri can nrmy had been formed, more than 750,000 Americans had seen fighting and there were moro than 2,000,000 men under our flag in France. Pride in tho whole achievement has no relation to vanity nor need one be chary of it in considering tho still vaster sacrifices mado by our allies over a much longer period. In the sober pages of General Persh ing's report these filets are evident: That the American army throughout the war never lost a battle. That from the time of its entrance it went continuously forward. That it won a campaign which shared only with one or two others the honor of decisiveness. These truths impcrishnbly speak for themselves in tho soldierly commentary of the victorious American commnndcr-in-chicf. "Man," tho boche aristocrats used to say, "begins with tho baron." They neglected to nay that the progressive development was downward. THE POSSIHLH PLIGHT OF 'SHW. M. IV rjIHE plfiuant xpectaele of tho Fabiin -- turned Harry Hotspur Is presented In East Mlddlesborough, England, where George Hernard Shaw seeks to renounco tho security of a critic, unfettered by public olllce In favor of the perils of can didacy. In a word, the world's champion long-distance writer of play prefaces Is standing for Parliament. Whether Mgncd cople3 of "The Revolu tionist's Handbook" nro distributed nt tho hustings is not stated, but consistently they should be, for his constituents of the Labor rarty aro certainly entitled to ac quaintance with his principles. Their dis closure In politics as freely as they have been In literary broadsides of dramatic tracts is what gives the quality of rash ness to the Irrepresslblo image-breaker's latest move. Perversity, head-hltttng verbal "Donny brookery" attho barley water sessions of tho Fabian society have long been an In nocuous delight to a public which never mistook word for deed3. Incendiary lan guage from a coterie whose very namo spelled delay was dellclously paradoxical. Even moro engaging were the Shavian volumes wherein witty cantankcrousne3s on oery conceivable theme was raised to tho maximum of incisive expression. In all there manifestations, however, Mr. Shaw as tho inexhaustible critic who spurned forthright action was safe. Today lie Is no longer iniolate. Where his code is contradictory it must fail in legislative halls. Where it Is definite and hero is the bitter cup for tho most aggres sive of "modernists" It is no longer novel. Anti-militarism, economic und Industrial readjustment, radical freo speech nnd uni versal suffrage ate subjects of which Mr. Shaw has no monopoly of Indorsement. Ho cannot startle Parliament with tho "phllosoph" of "Arms and tho Man," for tho practical application of it will very shortly be under serious consideration at tho Paris conference. In fact, Mr. Shaw's wings are not ex traordinary for the excellent reason that tho whole world is learning to fly If he falls back upon tho policy of "I told you so," he will only bo echoing the ex-Crown Prince of Germany. An Iconoclast with comparatively little to smash needs indeed even more than the courago of a Percy for moral support. Those who doubt the Uulte True alue of the services icndered by the ad ministrators of the Government's emergency departments during our period In tho war and there are a few persons who seem to bcllevo that they were chiefly ornamental might gain enlightenment if Hoover Fhould suddenly decide to Join tho leslgners. Tho earthquake Just belsmlr Intelllsence reported from Ataca ina, Chile, seems to have had a dramatic feeling for "situation," since that province is one of those annexed after tho war against Peru and Bolivia, echoes of which are still disturbing the ;ln tcrnatlonal situation In South America. The Berlin Goern Omens ment, as wo go to press. Is Red, The population is while with fear. And tho for mer Kaiser Is extremely blue. And yet, strange as It may seem, this doesn't mean that Oermary Is democratic. The Allies are said Diplomatic Mysteries to be disposed to re gard Herr Hohenzol lern as a "pirate or slave trader" without rights of sanctuary In any country. Now, why shouldn't they have said pirate and slave trader? Mr. Schwab is willing to co-operate with Philadelphia in the development of the port If Philadelphia will co-operato with htm. But' how are we to do It when some of our port boomers persist In diverting to New York all the business over which they have any con trol? It seems too bad the ex-Crown Prince didn't set up as an arm-chair war expert while hostilities were on. Judging by the latest Interview with his ix-Hlghness his grasp of hindsight is something stupendous, KNOW THE TRUTH For Birthday AT TWO years old the world he sees XA-Must seem expressly made to please I Such now-found words and games to try, 'Such sudden mirth, ho knows not why, So many curiosities! AS LIFE about him, by degrees a Discloses nil Its pageantries Ho watches with approval shy At two years old. WITH wonders tired ho takes his ease At dusk, upon his mother's knees: A llttlo laugh, a llttlo cry, Put toys to bed, then "scepy-byo" Tho world Is mado of such as these At two years old. If is not to be assumed that it is sheer nobttitv of heart that prompts tha tobac conist to give aicay little paper folders of matches. A German paper says that the Kaiser has fallen from tho subllmo to tho ridicu lous. Wo doubt whether he hns fallen as far as that. Ho never reached the subllmo. We are still a little nervous when he see a supar hotel on tha table and have a sneaking fear that one of 3tr. Hoover's apents may be lurking somewhere about. Vcrhaps if.i a trick! A friend of ours has recently been blessed with twins, but when wo accused him of putting on heirs ho was quite annoyed. If has been suggested that a post-mortem be held on tho Kaiser's brain, to determine what kind of mind he had, or didn't have. Wc submit that a post-mortem can only be held on something that once was alive. Doctor Garfield, tho fuel administrator, has resigned and so Is the public. "What an Idealistic city Philadelphia Is!" exclaimed a visitor from out of town when ho arrived hero nnd saw all tho street cars adorned with tho motto Know the Truth. "1 don't believe," ho continued, "that there's another town In tho country that would seek to Implant philosophy Into tho breasts of Its citizens In so striking a fashion." We didn't have tho heart to put him wise. But it occurred to us that when the P. R. T. wearies of tho present text It might try this one: Haste Makes Wajfe. Sonnets From a Lodging House Men lodgers nro tho best, tho Mrs. said: They don't uso my gas Jets to fry sardines. They don't leave ted-hot Irons on the spread, Thej'io out all morning, when a body cleans. A man ain't so secretive, never cares What kind of private papers ho leaves lay, So I can get a line on his affairs And dope out whether he Is likely pay, But women! Say, they surely get my bug! They stop their keyholes up with chewing gum, Spill grenso, nnd hide the damage with the rug, And fry mnrshmallows when their callers como. They always are behindhand with their rents Take my advice and let your rooms to gents! "The former Emperor sits at that win dow," said an observer nt Amerongon, "writing as though against time, hour after hour, sheet after sheet." And also, wo fear, writing against Truth, fib after fib. Wo wero much Interested to note tho other day that llr.i Hughes said In a speech that ono must not assume that big business is bad business. The most cathartic thinker of our time, George Bernard Shaw, has put the matter excellently well: Trusts arc most excellent things as superior to competitive shopkeeperism as symphonies are to comet solos; but they need more careful scoring and longer re hearsals and better conducting. Mhke tho World Safe for Smokers I CANNOT telephone comfortably Unless I am smoking And usually, when the operator keeps m waiting, My pipo goes out. Then what a problem! I tiansfer the receiver to my tight hand While I excavato my matches from my left trouser pocket; Then, by a little legerdemain, I get out a. match And shift tho receiver back to my. left hand. But how to light the match? I used to balance the box on my right ear And strike a light with my right hand, But I singed my ear-drum; So now I insert the 'matchbox Between my flm and third waistcoat but tons (After unbuttoning the second button) And lean slanting against the wall So that tho sparks will fall on the floor Instead of on my breeks. Just as I have got a light The operator connects me with my party And i have to unmouth my plpo in a hurry So I can answer. In my nervousness, I generally put The red-hot match In my ear. The lighted pipe In my pocket. And tho receiver in my mouth. Just then I notice the telephone company's little placard: The voice with the smile wins! I wish I had a third arm, An arm of maneuver. . , SOCRATES. The reports yP" ex-Kaiser, "writing hour after hour," Suggests that maybe he's about to syndicate himself. But In that case the reliability of the "Hohenzollern Servlco" would be more than questionable. The news that the Allies havo now tho "whole Turkish fleet" probably literally means that they have got the elusive Qoeben, which was only an Indian gift from the Ger mans, anyway. The report from the George Washington that "the sea, is calm" suggests that the Pres ident may admit the possibility of compensa tion in all situations. V . - - - asr -- -irrr-'V. 1- f - - -.-"- r, - - h.L. - .-S.--U-.- -- . -- i l" u,p.rd4-.t irVf7TEJJ PRESIDENTS AS ALTHOUGH Mr. Wilson Is the first -ti. American President to go abroad on a diplomatic mission during his term of office, and, so far as the easily accessible records Indicate, the third man holding the ofllco to go abroad after he had been elected, five of his predecessors served their country as minister In one or another of the European capitals before they be came President. GENERAL GRANT, as every one knows, mixln n tour of tho world after he left tho Whlto House, and was welcomed and feted as tho greatest military commander of his generation, measuring greatness by success. And Colonel Roosevelt, unique among Presidents, went to Africa to hunt big game In order to get relaxation after seven arduous years in Washington. When ho had got his fill of killing animals ho returned homo by way of tho European capitals. He called on the Kaiser In Bv lln and the Kaiser ordered a review of his troops in tho Colonel's honor. The Colonel, it will be recalled, told his host that if he had such an army ho could conquer tho world. And it will be recalled, also, that somo years later tho Kaiser mado tho at tempt to conquer tho world, with tho re sult that he Is now In exile at Amerongen, awaiting with such calmness as he can mustor the decision of the world as to his fate. Tho Colonel also visited Paris and London and made an address at Oxford University, received various honors and camo home. THOMAS JEFFERSON, James Monroe, John Qulncy Adams, Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan served tl.clr country abroad for many years before they were elected to tho presidency. They gained knowledge and experience which served them well when they entered tho White House. Jefferson represented the Confederation in Paris while the nation was being or ganized long beforo ho was elected to the presidency. Washington had threo minis ters to Paris. The first was Gouverneur Morris. Ho was succeeded In 1784 by Jnmes Monroo, who remained in Franco for two years. Monroe was sent to Great Britain as our minister by Jefferson In 1803, where he served alone until ho was Joined by James Plnckney in 1806, and tho two remained in London until 1811. John Qulncy Adams was our first minister to Russia, sent there by Madison In 1809. He remained in St. Petersburg until he was transferred to London by Madison in 1815. He returned to America lu 1817 after a residence abroad of eight years. Andrew Jackson sent abroad two men who later became President. Tho first was Martin Van Buren, who served as minister to Great Britain for about u year from 1831 to 1832, and the second was James Bu chanan, who went to St. Petersburg In 1832 and came home in 1833. President Pierce, when looking for a man to repre sent the country in Great Britain, followed Jackson's example nnd sent Buchanan abroad once more. Buchancn remained in London about tVlce as long as he served in St. Petersburg. Buchanan was tho last man to become President who ever held a diplomatic post of any kind, if wo except Mr. TafR Mr. Taft was Governor of the Philippines before ho was elected as Colonel Roosevelt's, suc cessor, und ho entered Into negotiations with Ihe Vatican for tho disposal of the friars' lands, stopping In Rome for tho purpose on his way to his post. But this service hardly ranks with that of the men who wero formally, commissioned1' as the f-Blvi v. -.-"A-OTi!!; -- . i ' l?bU l:ifl iinm KNOW THE TRUTH! V. n(.tUMIK9- '." l.L -. ." t- c' . .. .-'.:-.-' x, ;-: .OLri: - llc -fl--I- ..J" ,.--" - ---r:."CU.r-r4T?5;v,f6.":?;-5ra V ' ... Ss!,-fr'"-l "'"a. rcrTV'-XiE' - M.. ' - . - . ., . '... I-- . ' --r.-JnTjnAJXJT. "4-. r. --..-.. . VA. .?f' ' : '' -5ww"lT S v Er . Tttr'sC. - i '..f-t-.--i .- - '-nf.ly-71 . ,'t.-.- - DIPLOMATISTS envoy extraordinary and minister pleni potentiary to France, Great Britain or Russia. fTlHE rcaso.i for the nomination to dlplo---matlc posts In the early days of tho republic of men who later became Presi dent Is to bo found in the fact that we wero governed for years by a closo cor poration, tho members of which parceled out the ofTlces araonj themselves. This may bo an extreme way of stating tho . case, but it is approximately correct. Tho i-resiaenis nowadays aro nominated In con ventions composed of delegates from all tho States. Martin Van Buren .vas the first President to be nominated wholly by tho convention system. Washing. on was tho unanimous choice of the country and ho was elected without any formal nomina tion. Thereafter tho candidates wero named in Washington. Nono of the States suggested their favorlto sons, but the men running tho Government picked from among themselves tho presidential candi dates. There wns a candidate of the Ad ministration, selected after consultation among themselves by the men who con trolled tho Administration. The minority party in Congress got together and mado an opposition nomination and chose a man moro or less' active in the national Govern ment. Thus wo find In the, presidency, tho vice presidency, the ofneo of Secretary of State and In the diplomatic service a small group of names tho holders of which ono after another were promoted to the presi dency. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Qulncy Adams, Martin Van Buren and Bu chanan each served as Secretary of State and each held diplomatic ofllco. It was not until tho election of Jackson that tho hold on tho political affairs of tho country by the men who had been iho leaders In creating the Government was broker and a new order was Instituted. And when Jackson introduced the convention sysUm In order to secure the nomination of Van Buren the hold of the Washington clique on tho political machinery " the country was broken. Since then we have elected Grant and Cleveland and Roosevelt and Wilson to tho presidency when they had had no provious training In national affairs. In less than three years Cleveland was lifted from the ofllco of Mayor of, Buffalo Into the White House, a thing which could not havo happened in 1820, because then no ono outside of Buffalo -would have known anything about Cleveland and his cam paign for municipal honesty and efficiency. It was necessary In the beginning to select for the presidency men whom those In Washington knew had somo knowledge of tho national affairs. And the work of forming the Government had developed a group of such men of great ability whom It, was most natural to call upon for carry ing out tho work which they had begun. MR. WILSON has reversed the old prece dents by engaging In diplomatic work whllo he holds tho office of President, In stead of rising from a diplomatic post to the presidency. It Is as near as he could como to restoring the earlier practices, which he began by going to Congress to deliver his annual address after the man ner of Washington and John Adams. When you recall the namo of the ship the President sailed on It becomes necessary to admit that a great deal of the clamor tn the Senate seems unjustified. Mr. Wilson Is not far from Washington. The President broke precedent by sailing for Europe, and the next day tt snowed In Qerroantown. , NKg:-":---;,- U::-::3j jaaspgfr, .., , , J, !!i3iS Mrs. Santa Claus JfTNVILL. doubtless interest you to hear JL (I do not speak to grown-ups No, sir! Hut Just to kids) that Chr'stmas cheer Is actually coming closer! I know this Is n fact because , I've met dear Mrs. Santa Claus. I hadn't seen her slnco 'way back (Before the war the world was shocking) She used to fill her husband's pack And pack him off to fill your stocking With candy, fruit and alley taws "Fresh picked by Mrs. Santa Claus." But I have heard from her Oh, yes! In Red Cross c'rculars and letters. The dear old soul in times of stress Was busy knitting socks and sweater; Still hustling without let or pause, A kindly Mrs. Santa Claus. Said she, "Tho work was right at hand; And clearly It was prov'dentlal, Since war had mado us understand That Santa's work was nonessential By strict construction of the laws" She smiled, did Mrs. Santa Claus. "Of course, our llttlo girls and boys Wero not forgotten or neglected ; And certain dolls and other toys From polar nooks were resurrected. But this year will be free from flaws!" Said kindly Mrs. Santa Claus. Despite her years, light were her feet. And all her movements glrly-whlrly. She warbled as she crossed the street, "I'll do my Christmas shopping early V 'TIs so she'll win our'loud applause. God bless dear Mrs. Santa Claus 1 GRIF' ALEXANDER. On the Return of a Book Lent to a Friend I give humble and hearty thanks for the) safe return of this book, which; having endured the perils of my friend's bookcase, and the bookcase of my friend's friends, now returns to me In" reasonably good condition, I give humble and hearty thanks that my friend did not see fit to give this book to his Infant ns a plaything, nor use, it as an ash tray for his burning cigar, nor as a teethln ring for his mastiff. When I lent this book I deemed it as lost; I was resigned to tho bitterness of the Ions parting; I never thought to look upon its pages again. But now that my book Is come,back to me, I rejoice and am exceeding gladl Bring hither the fatted morocco and let us reblna tho volume and set It on the shelf of honor) for this my book waa lent, and Is returned again. Presently, therefore. I may return some or the books that I myself have borrowed. Life. Tho Transit Company seems to believe la "slgnecurcs." What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. VTtio ilesltnril the Statue of Llbertr in New York hnrbor? 2. Wlint atramBhln comnanr formerly owned the ilronrn Vtnuhlnelon, which Is carolnc the 1'reslilrnt to Kurope? 3. What fhe States led In the number of men rnrh resnrcthrlr cute to the American nrmr In the war? 4. What color la sometimes called raddle? 6. What Is the mranlnic of the T.ntlrj phrae "nine die" nnd how Is It aimlledf 6. Whut Is barratry? 7. What Is the larsrst c!ir tn Italy? B. Who nas N. I. Wll'le? 0. What celebrated Kntlkli admiral was known as "Old Uroi," und v.hjr was he ea called? 10. Whnt American general . led the forces nhleh captured Aculnnldo iuo, ine rmuppine revolu- iionisiT Answers to Yesterday's Quia 1. Doctor Garfield resl-na ns Federal fuel adm!n '".''JLlJi ,0 rI?",me nl" work President of Williams tollear. , S. 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